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World of Ptavvs by Larry Niven

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Author Biography

Name: Larry Niven
Birth Date: April 30, 1938
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: Writer

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Biography of Laurence Van Cott Niven
7827 words, approx. 26.1 pages
Four major themes are central to Larry Niven's writing. The first of these concerns human relations with alien civilization, especially the first human contact. Often a human character will gain insight into individual aliens or even into alien civilizat...
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Biography of Larry Niven
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Larry Niven writes science fiction with an emphasis on hard science. In his Hugo and Nebula award-winning book Ringworld, Niven constructed an enormous hoop-shaped artificial planet a million miles wide and with a diameter of 190 million miles. All the s...


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World of Ptavvs is a science fiction novel by Larry Niven, first published in 1966 and set in his Known Space universe. It was Niven's first published novel and is based on a 1965 short story of the same...


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The Village Voice
The World
02/22/2006: 411 words, approx. 1 pages
THE WORLD Zeitgeist All the world's a park in Jia's tale of hard-luck globe-trotters After three unsanctioned productions steeped in regional detail, Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke goes at once aboveground and global. Set in the director's native province of Shanxi, Xiao...
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The Boston Globe
They are the world
03/22/1999: 325 words, approx. 1 pages
No need for a vaccine or an invention. Sending the world's children to school -- perhaps the best way to fight poverty, disease, and chaos -- takes only money. Spending an extra $8 billion a year for 10 years, says an Oxfam International...
 


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World of Ptavvs by Larry Niven

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